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Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data (www.theverge.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Mozilla is updating its new Terms of Use for Firefox due to criticism over unclear language about user data.
  • Original terms seemed to give Mozilla broad ownership of user data, causing concern.
  • Updated terms emphasize limited scope of data interaction, stating Mozilla only needs rights necessary to operate Firefox.
  • Mozilla acknowledges confusion and aims to clarify their intent to make Firefox work without owning user content.
  • Company explains they don't make blanket claims of "never selling data" due to evolving legal definitions and obligations.
  • Mozilla collects and shares some data with partners to keep Firefox commercially viable, but ensures data is anonymized or shared in aggregate.
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[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Is there a way to generate fake user activity data to feed to Firefox or stripped down versions of firefox ?
So that the data is useless for anyone buying it. Furthermore fake browsing data also messes up data collection by websites.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Probably easier to go into the settings and untick a box to disable any telemetry.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

maybe with anti-detection browser, there are with free-bee version, dont know if that will help . which basically lets you use proxies as well, and spoofs your fingerprinting. people who made of accts, or advertise on reddit uses these to evade reddit ban(until reddit made it harder to do so currently)

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

I found something but it is for chrome. https://github.com/Xodarap/Paranoid-Browsing

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 27 points 18 hours ago

You're probably just better going with a fork of FF that has all that nonsense stripped out.